PayPal is one of the Internet’s great success stories.

An online payment solution that got its start in 1998, PayPal was acquired by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. Its early investors made a fortune.

Today, PayPal generates $8 billion in revenues a year—and according to JP Morgan, its current…

Imagine, for a moment, a world where the odds are always stacked in your favor:

A world where every horse you bet on wins the race…

Every cast of your reel lands you the biggest fish…

And every putt you attempt goes in the hole.

Now imagine something even more…

Right this second, there’s a certain corner of the market where investors are minting money.

It has nothing to do with stocks… options… gold… or anything else that sits in your portfolio.

In fact, this market is extremely exclusive: it’s estimated that less than 10,000 investors are active participants worldwide.

In the early morning of January 23, 1909, amidst a dense fog, an “unsinkable” luxury steamship called the RMS Republic collided with another ship.

The Republic soon sank to the bottom of the ocean. She was in treacherous, shark-infested waters 50 miles off the coast of Nantucket, beyond recovery.

Many…

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David and Goliath are once again at war.

In this modern-day version, David is a small business, and Goliath is a vast conglomerate with unlimited resources.

Goliath has stolen David’s intellectual property – and despite the fact that David is in the right, he can’t afford a courtroom battle on…

When a start-up needs capital to get off the ground, it seeks out "angel investors."

If the start-up grows up to become a successful, fast-growing business, when it needs expansion capital, it can go public.

But some companies need capital when they're in between these two phases – and this…

Think you need to be worth millions of dollars to be a successful angel investor?

Think again.

As we learned during our research for The Angel Initiative, some of the most successful early-stage investors are just ordinary folks.

In fact, today we’ll introduce you to a regular guy who’s made…

At Crowdability, we often tell you about exciting start-ups that are raising capital:

Some are building flying cars…

Others are helping manage diseases like Parkinson’s…

Still others are developing technology to put bank lenders out of business.

But if you really want to be a successful angel investor – an…

Last week, as part of The Angel Initiative, Wayne wrote about the massive profits investors can earn when they get in early.

But here’s the thing:

Historically, the only folks able to capture these profits were big venture funds.

Recently, however, a series of “Big Bang” events changed…